tnecniv

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by tnecniv 4mo ago
That happened to me in high school. I was in "advanced" freshman bio. Teacher gave me a B. When my parents inquired during a parent-teacher conference, she said I looked like I wasn't paying attention. Fast forward ten years
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Maybe that’s true but I don’t think it is. Star Wars was before my time but I still enjoyed those movies. I was a little too young for the Matrix when it came out, and when I saw it as an adult I really liked it. Not all summer blockbusters
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by tnecniv 3y ago
There’s a picture book of Greek myths my dad would read to me from when I was a kid. It toned down the gore and rape stuff (it was still there just implied so a kid won’t get it), and made for great listening as a kid before bed. 20 years l
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by tnecniv 3y ago
On Achilles, wasn’t he told he a god / oracle that he can choose between going and having his name remembered as a hero for all time at the cost of dying young or staying home, living a happy life, and nobody remembering him after he p
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I’ve given that as a review to friends about movies before. The ultimate sin is not being bad but being boring.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Nonlinear things start looking like linear things again in very high dimensions
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I used Android for a long time before switching back to an iPhone. While mostly I’m happy with my iPhone, I do miss some of the UI customization features like being able to switch graphical shells like this
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by tnecniv 3y ago
They shouldn’t. It makes papers less accessible which means they’re less impactful. That said, a lot of academics are good at their discipline and bad at writing.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The issue is it turns player wages into a zero sum game. In the NFL, quarterbacks have been taking up a bigger and bigger percentage of the cap, while players in positions that don’t last as long (due to injuries or just aging out) make les
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I moved into an apartment and kept the plan the previous resident had. They also sold us the non-xfinity router they had st a discount. My roommate and I had spotty internet at various times of day. We measured it and it was way below what
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I have no experience with this but my understanding is that they don’t go straight to wage garnishes (which I’ve heard the bureaucracy is slow to handle in situations where the garnished individual moves). That happens if you don’t meet pay
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Your personal one is the correct one from my perspective (as someone that knows a lot of math and is familiar with statistical mechanics as math and not physics). The ODEs that we get from classical mechanics are typically reversible: we ca
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Is the mania with this game really just that people are hungry for anything pokemon-like? I tried the game the other day and played it for 4 hours. I knew nothing coming into it besides “pokemon with guns” and I just found it to be awful
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I find it interesting that you dislike the combat in the originals but like Pokemon Stadium which only features combat (and horrid mini games). Also I’m not really sure what exploring you’d want to do in those early games. I guess if you wa
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I like this tutorial because it doesn’t get too bogged down in abstractions and has numerous examples. When I’ve tried to learn differential geometry in the past, standard texts get very abstract very quickly and it’s hard for me to envisio
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It turns out that PhD holders are a diverse group of people with many different personality types!
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by tnecniv 3y ago
We don’t do that with all compounds though. It’s really more a cultural thing. At a certain point a pair becomes so common place that it becomes one word. Beehive, for example, isn’t semantically different from bee hive but the pairing was
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Oh I’ll say beefs when referring to cows as a joke. TIL it’s an actual word!
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It’s probably like a harmonica. You won’t sound that bad with it because it prohibits you from playing off key, but a good harmonica player knows what they’re doing.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
He makes some sick beats. The overlay is just for the vibes
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I used to hang out in an IRC channel, and the big CL proponent there was a Norwegian that would disappear for long periods and go boat / hang out in the woods on his own. Apparently those are common hobbies in Scandinavia but it also m
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Normal is just the first one you learn. Hell, in math, normal even has multiple meanings. You have the normal distribution and surface normals for example
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Kernel is an overloaded term outside of software engineering. In linear algebra it means the null space, but that has no connection I’ve ever found to kernel methods or kernels more generally in functional analysis.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I’ve been seeing a lot of D stuff lately. Is there a reason for it, or is it just the cycle of someone posts a D article, which causes someone else to get interested in D, which leads to another article post, repeat?
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The advantage to the RCA one is you can scan it at any angle, but I feel like that’s a small benefit in practice
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It also infamously doesn’t have a lot of standard notation.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Lawyers do. My dad is winding down his legal career but the bulk of it was spent writing corporate loan contracts. He’d constantly have clients asking him to make “small changes” to the document that either made no sense or were, in fact, l
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It’s been at least a decade since I’ve felt Ubisoft has had their shit together.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Eh, I think operator overloads make a lot of sense in the right context. If you created a type that’s a kind of mathematical object, you want a mathematical syntax for it. However, they are horrible when abused.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
They’re ADHD, anxiety, and depression are all comorbid as well. Adderall is the best anti-anxiety med I’ve ever been on because it makes me focus on the present and not potential future negatives. Ive also benefitted from SSRIs though, they

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